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Leave the cooking to the pros this Christmas...

Every year, friends and family gather around the roasted turkey beautifully displayed on the dinner table on December 25th. And more often than not, it's the result of hours of hard-work, slaving over a hot oven.

But what if we told you THIS year you don't have to cook your own Christmas dinner!?

The beauty of life in Dubai means 5* hotels and restaurants will actually cook your turkey - AND all the trimmings - for you, so you don't have to waste hours of your Christmas day in the kitchen.

Celebrate the arrival of 2019 this year in style...

There's nowhere in the world that celebrates the arrival of a New Year quite like Dubai and the rest of the UAE. With humongous fireworks displays, lavish buffets and gala dinners and entertainment at various attractions throughout the city - Dubai is one of the world's go-to spots for New Year's.

If you haven't done so already, here's some help to plan your celebrations with our BIG list of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day brunches, buffets and entertainment in Dubai.

If there’s one thing about Christmas that can rival the feeling of a new smartphone, Dan Brown novel or horribly ugly sweater, it’s the food. At no other time of year can you indulge so eagerly in such displays of gluttony.

It is perhaps surprising then, that this glorious decadence is always painstakingly structured: The same meal is dished out again and again, honed by countless years of practice and force of habit.

Most of our festive foods have centuries of tradition behind them to justify their spots on the menu.